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Westpac extends chief executive's contract

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The board of Westpac has amended chief executive Peter King's employment contract, removing the initial two-year term. King confirmed he has committed to a multi-year plan to turn the company around. His other contract terms remain unchanged. Chair ...

ING announces head of wealth, chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
ING Australia has appointed BT's former head of platforms as its head of wealth and has promoted its head of retail bank to chief executive. New head of wealth Dina Kotsopoulos was with BT for nearly 15 years and was appointed head of platforms ...

ANZ flags earnings hit

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
ANZ has announced a $528 million impact on its cash profit as a result of remediation costs, accelerated software costs and goodwill write off. Following a product review across ANZ, remediation charges have been increased $97 million from the first ...

New fund manager at EG

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... mandate," EG said in a statement. So far this year, EG has acquired four assets in New South Wales (Botany Bay, Ingleburn, West Ryde, Roseberry and Roseberry) totalling over $100 million. It also won a $400 million mandate from GIC, and opened a private ...

Super SA hires former Elders manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Government fund Super SA has appointed a former Elders regional manager to head up its financial advice offering. Allan Ward has been appointed as senior manager financial advice at the fund. He was previously the regional manager for Elders Financial ...

Chant West head of client development to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... four and a half years at the company. Geoff Peck was responsible for sales and service of new and existing clients at Chant West. He also worked on developing new tools for clients and had a team of two reporting into him. After Chant West sold its superannuation ...

Tasmania remains best performing state: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Tasmania has retained its status as having the best performing economy in Australia for the third consecutive quarter, CommSec research shows. In the stockbroker's latest State of the States report, the ACT economy has risen to second position, its ...

Westpac hit with $1.2bn of losses

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Westpac will be hit with $1.2 billion worth of losses mostly driven by its life insurance business and AUSTRAC penalties. The bank flagged the massive loss ahead of releasing its full year 2020 results on November 2. Goodwill and intangibles associated ...

Super advice firm buys robo-adviser

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
Digital superannuation advice provider SuperEd has acquired robo-advice provider Clover. SuperEd provides a number of services such as intra-fund advice for superannuation members and Retirement Essentials which assists Australians applying for the ...

Australian Ethical executive departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
Australian Ethical's head of people and culture has left the business after seven years. A spokesperson for Australian Ethical confirmed Fiona Horan returned to her native Ireland after over 25 years in Australia in October. "In line with our focus ...